Trains do run on the above ground railway system. An elevated portion of the New York City Subway that runs from Manhattan to Coney Island is part of the game world, but the subway system is not accessible to the player as a means of transportation, unlike True Crime: New York City where you can access the subway. The player can traverse these bridges freely from the start. The game features all of New York City's major bridges except the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the Whitestone Bridge, the Hell Gate Bridge, and the Throgs Neck Bridge. In Brooklyn, the player can visit Coney Island. In 1978, the twin towers of the World Trade Center are present, along with New York City's many other landmarks such as the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Times Square, Central Park, and Flatiron Building in Manhattan. The only atmospheric changes are the day-to-night cycle. However, the game completely lacks any kind of weather. Several things have changed in the game from real-life New York, for example, New York City Police Department has simply been dubbed into "City Police". The game's New York City is also more "life-like" compared to previous games in the series: vendors sell donuts, NPC pedestrians talk rather than simply grunting and screaming, and numerous side jobs (such as taxi driving and car towing) are available. The game's Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, and New Jersey consists of 222.5 miles of roadway, larger than the combined total of all three cities (Miami, Nice, and Istanbul) from DRIV3R. Instead, the game presents a smaller but more stylistic version of the city that includes all the boroughs except Staten Island and parts of the New Jersey shore. The interpretation of New York City in Parallel Lines is not GPS street-accurate like Manhattan. Instead, the only available cinematic mode is the fixed-perspective slow-motion "Thrill Camera".
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The instant replay film director mode of previous Driver games was removed from Parallel Lines. The game was originally intended to include online multiplayer, but this was scrapped when it became apparent to the developers that they could not deliver a strong multiplayer mode and wanted to focus entirely on the single-player portion of the game. Also, swimming and jumping abilities from DRIV3R, were removed. For the Wii version, the felony bar has been replaced with Grand Theft Auto-esque "stars" which light up when the player attracts police attention. The same principle applies to out-of-car activities, such as weapon use, and allows the player to holster a weapon in order to lose police attention until spotted committing illegal acts again. It can be reactivated, though, by spending too much time in the sight of a police officer, who will eventually recognize the player as "wanted". If the player attracts police attention on foot or in a certain vehicle and then loses the police and enters a "clean" car, their wanted level will be suspended. Many changes have been made from DRIVER, including visible blood when someone is shot, a money system, fully modifiable vehicles, environment destruction (i.e., lamp posts can now be run over and fire hydrants can break, spewing water into the air), and a new felony system that differentiates between personal felony and felony "attached" to vehicles the player has used. Instead of choosing minigames from a menu as in previous Driver titles, minigames are now accessed from the in-game world. The Kid aka TK, the new main character, received Game Informer's "Biggest Dork of 2006" award.ĭriver: Parallel Lines takes place in an entirely open world environment.
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This is the first game of the Driver series that does not follow undercover cop Tanner. The game was received better by critics than DRIV3R, but still was criticized, including its simple gameplay, hit-or-miss controls, and derivative storyline. Due to the underwhelming performance of Driv3r, particularly the often-derided on-foot sections, Parallel Lines returns to the formula used in earlier games in the series, focusing on driving, although shooting remains in the game. Diverging from previous Driver games, Parallel Lines takes place in just one city, New York City, instead of multiple cities, but in the middle of the story you change to different eras of the city - 19.